Bloomberg Banking on the ‘Stupidity’ of Gun Owners

Remember the firestorm that erupted last year when Obama
administrationconsultant and MIT
economics professor Jonathan Gruber revealed the deception at the heart of the
White House’s strategy to pass Obamacare? According to Gruber:

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And
basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but
basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass. … Look, I
wish … we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than
not.”

There you have it. The end justifies the means, no matter
if it takes outright lies or sleight of hand to “have this law.”

Poll after poll showed that Americans were satisfied with
their health care plans. The only way President Obama and his cohorts could
sell Obamacare was to conceal the law’s true ramifications and convince those
who were already content with their health insurance that they wouldn’t be
affected.

You remember the lie: “If you like your health careplan, you can keep it.”

Now, former New York City MayorMichael Bloomberg and the
gun-ban crowd are hoping a “lack of transparency” combined with the “stupidity”
of the American gun owner, will help them pass so-called ”universal background
checks” in states around the nation.

Obama, Bloomberg, and the national gun-ban media frequently
exploit tragedy, using fear and lies to sell their agenda to non-gun owners,
especially when it comes to election season. This is their traditional
playbook. They target folks who have very little understanding of the Second
Amendment, and who have never been exposed to firearms or our hunting and
shooting traditions, in their quest to raise money and win votes.

As gun ownership continues to grow in popularity, however,
the anti-gunners have increasingly turned to trying to sway actual gun owners
to advance their anti-freedom, anti-civil rights agenda.

Sounds incredible, doesn’t it? What gun owners would
support policies that are blatantly designed to strip them of their
constitutional freedom?

To put it bluntly: gullible gun owners. Uninformed folks
who believe Obama and Bloomberg when they say that law-abiding gun owners have
nothing to fear with a universal background checks system because it’s only
aimed at preventing “gun violence.”

These are outright lies. You know it and I know it.
Simply put, violent criminals break the law—any law—every day with impunity.

It’s already a federal crime to engage in the business of
selling firearms or ammunition without a federal firearm license. It’s already
a crime for licensed firearm dealers to sell a gun at retail without conducting
a National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check on the
purchaser. And, of course, federal law also prohibits felons, those adjudicated
mentally ill, drug users and others from purchasing a firearm.

We don’t have to guess how hardened criminals will get
their guns if universal background checks are passed, because we already know
how they get them now: through theft, black market purchases, criminal
associates, and straw purchasers. Background checks cannot and do not stop any
of these things.

The plain truth is that universal background checks are
designed to put the government squarely in the middle of virtually every firearm
transaction that takes place between law-abiding adults. Such proposals seek to
criminalize lawful, everyday transfers of firearms just because they happen
without a government bureaucrat first rendering his approval and documenting
the event. They put nearly every transaction under the thumb of the government.

So if you wanted to lend a shotgun or rifle to your
hunting buddy for the weekend, or hand down a cherished family heirloom to a
cousin, or even if you wanted to lend a firearm to a loved one in danger, you
would be forced to get permission from the government, or face criminal
charges. Under the measure recently passed in Washington State, participants in
the classroom portion of a gun safety class can’t even hand unloaded firearms
to each other. How does that prevent gun violence?

Worst of all, the only way universal background checks
can be enforced is through mandatory gun registration. In fact, Obama’s own
Justice Department reported that a viable background check system for private
sales “depends” on “requiring gun registration.”

You read that right. The whole scheme is a Trojan horse
for mandatory gun registration. According to the U.S. Department of Justice,
the only way to fully enforce universal background checks is to force all
law-abiding gun owners to document and register their firearms in a government
database. Think about it. How else are they supposed to know when the
background check requirement has been triggered, unless they can match every
firearm to a documented gun owner.

That’s why Bloomberg and his billionaire buddies spent
millions upon millions of dollars to pass Initiative 594 in the state of
Washington last November. At its core, I-594 is nothing more Obama’s backdoor
gun registration scheme that NRA members like you fought so hard to defeat just
two years ago in the U.S. Senate.

It’s also why Bloomberg announced a major offensive to
pass this scheme state-by-state, with Nevada the next target, until universal
background checks and mandatory gun registration become an inescapable reality
for all Americans.

It’s a nightmare for every law-abiding gun owner and
should serve as a wake-up call for every one of us to say “never in my state.”

As an NRA member, I know that you’re well-informed and
won’t be duped.

But gun owners who are not NRA members don’t read our
magazines, nor do they receive our legislative alerts and e-mails, leaving them
vulnerable to falling for Bloomberg’s and Obama’s lies.

You and I must expose the truth about universal
background checks to every gun owner we know to make certain that a “lack
of transparency” and “stupidity” don’t end up costing us our freedom!

Obama administration

Michael S. Barr
was the assistant Treasury secretary for the Barack Obama administration, and is a fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Note: Ronald W. Bloom
was an assistant to the president for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Carol M. Browner
was the energy czar for the Barack Obama
administration, and is a director, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

William A. Burton
was a deputy press secretary for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Tom Daschle
was the nominee for health and human services secretary for the Barack Obama administration, is the
chairman for the Center for American
Progress, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Ezekiel Emanuel
was the health care policy adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Jocelyn C. Frye
was the policy & projects director to Michelle Obama for the Barack Obama administration, and is a
senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress.

Austan D.
Goolsbee was a director, Economic Recovery Board, council of economic
adviser’s chairman for the Barack Obama
administration, and is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Peter Ogden was a director
for climate change & environmental policy, National Security staff for the Barack Obama administration, and is a
senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress.

John D. Podesta
was a counselor for the Barack Obama
administration, and is the founder of the Center for American Progress.

Lawrence H. Summers was the National Economic
Council chairman for the Barack Obama
administration, is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Peter Swire was a special
assistant to the president for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Melody C. Barnes
was a domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, the EVP for the Center for American Progress, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.

Cassandra Q. Butts
was a deputy White House counsel for the Barack
Obama administration, and the SVP for the Center for American Progress.

Philip J. Crowley
was an assistant secretary of state for the Barack Obama administration, and a director of homeland security at
the Center for American Progress.

Derek Douglas
was a special assistant for urban affairs for the Barack Obama administration, and an associate director of economic
policy at the Center for American
Progress.

Bradley J. Kiley
was a director of management and administrationfor the Barack
Obama administration, and a VP at the Center
for American Progress.

Jeanne Lambrew
is the deputy assistant to the president for health policyfor the Barack Obama administration, was a senior
fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and a director at the HHS
Office of Health Reform.

Denis McDonough
is the chief of staff; former deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and was a
senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress.

Jennifer M.
Palmieri was acommunications
director, assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration, and an SVP at the Center for American Progress.

Dan
Restrepo was a special assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration, and a senior
fellow; former Americas Project director at the Center for American Progress.

Gene B. Sperling
was an assistant to the president for economic policy for the Barack Obama administration, and a
senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress.

Richard R. Verma
was an assistant secretary of state for the Barack Obama administration, and a fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Morton H. Halperin
was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and is a senior adviser for the Open Society Foundations.

Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the American Constitution Society, and the Human Rights First.

George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a supporter
for the Center for American Progress,
a benefactor for the Harlem Children's
Zone, and William D. Zabel was
his divorce lawyer.

Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Harlem Children's Zone, the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the Human Rights First.

John
J. Mack was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.

Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, the New York (NY)
mayor, a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, is the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety, and a co-chair for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Raben Group is
the lobby firm for the Mayors Against
Illegal Guns, and the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund.

Eric H. Holder Jr.
was an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, a board member for the American Constitution Society, and the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.

Robert Raben was
a director at the American Constitution
Society, an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is the president of the Raben Group.

Raben Group is
the lobby firm for the Mayors Against
Illegal Guns, and the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund.

Melody C. Barnes
was a principal at the Raben Group, a
domestic policy council, director for the Barack
Obama administration, an EVP for the Center
for American Progress, and is Barack
Obama’s golf partner.

Kenneth R.
Feinberg was an administrator of victim payments for the 2012 Aurora (CO) theater shootings, and
is a director at the Human Rights First.

Mark A. Angelson
was a director at the Human Rights First,
and a partner at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is Melody C. Barnes’s golf
partner.

James D. Zirin is
a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, and
was a director at the Human Rights First.

William D. Zabel
is the chair for Human Rights First,
was a trustee at the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and George Soros’s
divorce lawyer.

Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for theHuman
Rights First,the Harlem Children's Zone, the Center for American Progress, and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and William D. Zabel was his divorce lawyer.

Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, the New York (NY)
mayor, a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, is the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety, and a co-chair for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Raben Group is
the lobby firm for the Mayors Against
Illegal Guns, and the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund.

Eric H. Holder Jr.
was an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, a board member for the American Constitution Society, and the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.

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